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Leveraging the ‘power’ of big data in the production of ‘responsible gamblers’: a Foucauldian perspective
Information & Communications Technology Law Pub Date : 2020-08-12 , DOI: 10.1080/13600834.2020.1807117
Rachel Allsopp 1
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ABSTRACT This article examines the big data practices employed by the online gambling industry to illustrate the wider societal power structures involved. As well as using data for commercial ends, gambling operators in the UK market are obligated by law to utilise gamblers’ data to protect problem gamblers. This paper argues that the use of data in this way can be interpreted as a form of social control when observed through a Foucauldian lens. Contrary to the dominant narrative of free and informed choice, gamblers’ behaviour is arguably being governed both at an individual level through disciplinary mechanisms of surveillance and correction, and at the level of the population through governmentality techniques applied to the gambling environment. Through big data practices and industry discourse, these mechanisms of power are used to frame the choices of individuals and shape them into a productive population of ‘responsible gamblers’.

中文翻译:

在“负责任的赌徒”的生产中利用大数据的“力量”:福柯的观点

摘要 本文考察了在线赌博行业采用的大数据实践,以说明所涉及的更广泛的社会权力结构。除了将数据用于商业目的之外,英国市场的赌博运营商还有义务利用赌徒的数据来保护问题赌徒。本文认为,通过福柯镜头观察,以这种方式使用数据可以被解释为一种社会控制形式。与自由和知情选择的主要叙述相反,赌徒的行为可以说是通过监督和纠正的纪律机制在个人层面受到控制,在人口层面通过应用于赌博环境的治理技术在人口层面受到控制。通过大数据实践和行业话语,
更新日期:2020-08-12
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